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DECEMBER 14, 2017

The adorable animated VR short, from the director of Madagascar, delighted audiences last year with a colorful showcase of characters and an engaging plot narrated by Ethan Hawke. Actor Elizabeth Banks and YouTube Creator Ingrid Nilson join the cast in this ‘INVASION’ sequel. You remember INVASION!

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The content available included a twenty year retrospective piece on the studio, another for their recent release of Home , and the last being an interactive experience for Penguins of Madagascar.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

Darnell is best known for his director and screenwriter credits on all four films in the DreamWorks Madagascar franchise, and also known for his work on The Penguins of Madagascar (2014) and Antz (1998). Baobab Studios was founded by Eric Darnell and Maureen Fan in 2015.

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APRIL 11, 2017

and ASTEROIDS! , Rainbow Crow is directed by Eric Darnell, Co-Founder and CCO of Baobab (who also wrote and directed the Madagascar franchise). Like INVASION! Rainbow Crow brings storytelling and music together in a way no one else has yet in virtual reality,” said Legend in a statement.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Narrated by Ethan Hawke and created by the director of Madagascar, INVASION! Suitable for children and seniors, everyone is bound to get a kick out of these experiences. Happy holidays from the VRScout family to yours. – Baobab Studios. is a colorful VR animated short about a duo of aliens with grand ambitions to take over our world.

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JANUARY 20, 2017

Headed by veterans from Pixar and DreamWorks Animation, including “Madagascar” writer-director Eric Darnell. Vive is also highlighting new content from Baobab Studios, a studio that brought its impressive animation pedigree to VR last year with “Invasion!,” an award-winning title launched last year.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

Fan was most recently the vice president of games at Zynga before starting Baobab with Madagascar and Antz director Eric Darnell. Baobab’s adorable virtual reality animated short Invasion has reportedly been downloaded over 1 million times according to co-founder Maureen Fan.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

directed by the same person responsible for Madagascar and narrated by Ethan Hawke. Now, a major actress is making her way into the new immersive media by lending her voice to an animated VR feature. Baobab Studios previously created the animated VR feature INVASION! Their second feature, ASTEROIDS!

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

Fan previously worked at Zynga as a vice president while Darnell worked on the Madagascar films. The money will be used to develop more animated movies and add to the 20 people currently working at the company. Baobab was founded by Eric Darnell, Chief Creative Officer, and Maureen Fan, CEO, in 2015. ” Invasion!

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APRIL 27, 2017

both of which are helmed by CCO Eric Darnell who is known for writing and directing four Madagascar films and directing Antz (1998). He’s pretty involved, in other words. Baobab, meanwhile, is the studio behind INVASION! and ASTEROIDS!

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JANUARY 24, 2017

transitioned to VR from Hollywood, where he directed movies like Antz and the Madagascar franchise. “We wanted to give people the ability to act on that empathy—which becomes compassion.”. Darnell, who wrote and directed ASTEROIDS! In fact, INVASION!

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

By making both versions available, we are now able to share this powerful tale with audiences everywhere and give viewers the opportunity decide how to participate in Crow’s journey in this holistic animation experience”, said Baobab co-founder and "Crow" producer, writer and director Eric Darnell (“Madagascar” franchise, “Antz”).

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AUGUST 3, 2023

Named Most Innovative Company by Fast Company (2018), the studio is creatively led by writer/director Eric Darnell (Antz and all four Madagascar films). Founded in 2015, nine-time Emmy® award-winning Baobab Studios is a world leader in independent interactive animation. In addition to Namoo (2021), Baobab has released: INVASION!

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

The director of the “Madagascar” series of animated films, Eric Darnell , and the veteran Hollywood producer Joe Roth are changing that. I think that next logical step is using VR and VR stories in the film industry. But the transformation rarely – if ever – goes the other way. “Invasion!,”

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OCTOBER 18, 2019

Find out in this new VR experience from Baobab Studios and from the director of Madagascar and Antz. Along with your robot sidekick, Debbie, your only source of light is a the flickering makeshift bonfire light. What dangers lurks around you? Supported platform(s): PlayStation VR. Launch date: 22 nd October.

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MARCH 17, 2021

Scientists at the Duke Lemur Center in North Carolina say their fat-tailed dwarf lemurs went into hibernation for the first time ever in captivity last winter, mimicking the process their counterparts in the wild undergo regularly. By studying this process up close in our primate relative, the researchers also hope to… Read more.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2016

To me, that seems like an investment in one particular person, the guy who made Madagascar. You expect the guy who made Madagascar to be able to do something good. They raised $25 million. Now he’s doing VR and he’s come up with a couple of funny VR shorts, interactive 360 videos. That, to me, seems to be why they got that much money.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

Night Shyamalan’s next mysterious movie taps a suitably mysterious cast. Bryce Dallas Howard discusses filming Jurassic World: Dominion during covid-19. Go behind the scenes of making Bill & Ted Face the Music. Plus, Henry Cavill gets dirty for The Witcher season 2, and what’s to come on Lovecraft Country. Spoilers… Read more.

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VeeR VR

MARCH 6, 2018

Colorful VR animation from the director of Madagascar and narrated by Ethan Hawke. Discover what happens to our abandoned dreams in VR animation film "The Dream Collector", one of the finalists in Venice VR this year. It follows the story of an old man and his dog, who collect broken dreams and try to fix them. INVASION **2017 EMMY WINNER**.

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OCTOBER 7, 2018

That isn’t just hyperbole either, Eric Darnell, the founder of Baobab Studios directed all 4 of the Madagascar movies! Asteroids. ‘Asteroids’, looks like something straight out of a Disney. The short film takes place in outer-space but within the spaceship of two aliens.

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OCTOBER 7, 2018

That isn’t just hyperbole either, Eric Darnell, the founder of Baobab Studios directed all 4 of the Madagascar movies! Asteroids. ‘Asteroids’, looks like something straight out of a Disney. The short film takes place in outer-space but within the spaceship of two aliens.

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JANUARY 31, 2022

The death toll from Tropical Storm Ana, which blew through Madagascar, Mozambique, and Malawi last week, stood at nearly 80 on Monday, while… Read more. Fallout from a devastating tropical storm that hit several countries in southern Africa is building as the death count continues to rise and communities struggle to recover.

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